This is an analysis of the poem The Three Graves. A Fragment Of A Sexton's Tale that begins with:
The grapes upon the Vicar's wall
Were ripe as ripe could be;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb ddXd efXf ghbh ibdb jjXj cgjg ghbh hkhk lmam andn lbbbb cdkX ojhj jplp cqggq bfcf dbhp eheh qchX bhdh lqcq hcic dnln qXob dbabjB abjB hbXX nXdh jbLX lcLX qpap jobX nblb bojo akak mjiij jgbg lnjn jcnc arnr X jgdg jbXb dbab Xcfc bfdf dpffp jiXi oaha ni
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,6,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,6,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01010101 011110 11010111 010001 101100101 110101 11011101 110101 11110101 110101 010111010 110111 10111111 011111 11011111 110110 11100111 111101 111110001 010101 11010111 010111 11111111 010101 110011101 111101 11110101 000101 01010101 010101 11011101 111101 011010101 110111 11010111 110101 01010101 111101 01000101 0100101 11110101 110101 11010101 110011 11011101 110101 11011101 11111110 1100111 11110101 1111110 01111101 1101010 101011111 110111 11111111 010001 11010101 1101110 110010101 1101110 11010101 1111010 11011101 11110111 1111110 11111111 110101 11111111 010001 11110011 111101 11110111 010100 01010001 010111 11011101 111101 11010100 0100111 11100111 1101000 01110101 010111 110010101 110111 01110101 0101110 011010101 1111010 11110101 110011 11010101 010111 111111010 111111 11010111 110101 111101110 110101 11011011 111001 110111001 011101 11110101 111111 11111101 010001 11010111 111101 10111111 010001 11100111 111111 110101010 111111 11111101 100111 11010110 110111 10011111 010101 11010101 101111 11010001 0101010 11010101 1111010 11011100 1101010 01011101 1101010 11010101 110111 11010111 111111 11110101 111001 110101001 0101001 11010111 110111 10000101 111101 11011101 011101 11011101 1101001 11010101 010111 11011101 11110101 1001101 10010001 110101 11110111 010101 11011101 110101 11111011 110101 11011101 110111 11010001 110101 11001111 1100011 11011110 111101 11 01011101 110101 11000111 111001 11110111 011101 11010111 111111 01111111 111111 11010101 110111 110001010 111101 0100110001 110111 11010101 1101011 11110001 010101 101101010 0111110 111100101 11010111 1101010 01011101 011111 11011111 111101 11010111 1111010 11011011 1101110 11011001 111101 111101110 110101 11110111 010111 11011001 010001 11110111 110111 11110111 110101 11010111 110101 11010111 0110010 10111110 1101100 11011100 110111 10110111 010101 110101110 1101010 10010111 1111110 11010111 1101110 11010101 1101110 100110111 1100111 11110111 111101 11011101 110001 11011101 1101101 10110001 110011 11011101 100101 11100111 010101 11011111 001101 11010111 110111 111101001 111100 11011111 111111 11011111 011101 010110010 011101 01110111 111111 11110111 010101 110101001 110101 11000101 101101 01110101 111001 01010111 010101 01111111 110111 11010111 010101 11010111 100101 01010101 010101 01110101 111010101 110101 11110101 111101 01011101 111111 11110111 110101 10010101 110111 11011011 001101 11011101 11010111 111111 11110011 110110 10110111 110101 11110111 0100101 11110111 1010001 11011111 010101 01111101 010111 11111111 110001 111011111 110111 11011101 111001 11011101 111101 11011111 001010 11010111 1101110 10100010010100001010101010
- Amount of stanzas: 79
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 321
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, her, i, she, his, all, 'tis, to, sweet, hear are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, to are repeated.
The author used the same words and, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines track, ways, ', prayers are repeated).
The poet repeated the same words eye, ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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